2009.05.09: David and Angie

I was driving back from Leanna's place at about 2am and happened to have a large format monorail camera and two sheets of ERA Pan 100 film left in my Grafmatic film back. I was passing the University of Alberta Hospital and I noticed that there were some people out back coming out for a smoking break. I stopped my car and asked to take their photo.



I had a brief chat with the two who had also just met each other. Angie was in for a bad ear infection and David was back for a check up after losing his leg in a house fire. I believe that both of them are doing alright. They both have my business card and I offered to make them some prints if they were to contact me. If you lost my card but see this entry, give me a call because I owe you some prints. Both shot with the Calumet Caltar-S II 210/5.6 which is a private-labelled Rodenstock Sironar-S of the same aperture and focal length. ERA Pan 100 is a Chinese made film on a thick base and a relatively traditional anti-halation layer which allows shots to become a bit "glowy" around specular highlights. The person I bought my Kwok Camera from included a 25 pack of this film because it's so cheap. It's about $0.50 plus shipping from China. I believe that I successfully pushed this film to ISO 400 in Ilfosol S developer with a 1+9 dilution. Digital Truth's Massive Dev Chart didn't have development times for pushing ERA to ISO 400 but I looked at the development times for Ilford's FP4+ which is also a traditional grain film, compared this to suggested starting points for push processing and to ERA's listed development times for ISO 100 and decided that 14minutes was about right. Worked out on the first try. Scanned with the Microtek M1 scanner.